Police accused of killing Boko Haram founder reinstated

Five Nigerian police officers accused of killing Mohammed Yusuf while in their custody in 2009 were reinstated in February 2018.

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A judge in Abuja had acquitted the officers of all charges in December 2015. The clashes in July 2009, in which about 800 Boko Haram followers were killed, prompted an escalation in violence that has since left at least 20,000 dead and made over 2.6 million more homeless.